Reduce Clinician Burnout: The Case for Fewer Apps in Healthcare

In many health systems, a nurse must log in to multiple applications before seeing the first patient. A doctor may bounce between an electronic health record, imaging software, schedule tools and documentation systems during one patient visit. While each app promises better efficiency, too many disconnected technologies can have the opposite effect. Due to years of mergers, department-level purchasing and one-off point solutions, many health systems run hundreds if not thousands of applications. Nearly one-third of clinicians use four to 15 different applications on shared mobile devices per…